First Look: NBC Sports president Rick Cordella on Michael Jordan’s involvement with NBC Sports — and where NBC Sports stands on Notre Dame missing out on the CFB playoffs
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Here’s a short look from our upcoming podcast with Rick Cordella, the president of NBC Sports. In the podcast Cordella goes deep on his company’s remarkable upcoming set of events including the Milan-Cortina Olympic Winter Games, the Super Bowl and NBA All-Star Game. In this preview clip, Cordella discusses Michael Jordan’s involvement as an NBA special contributor and how he feels about Notre Dame, a partner of NBC Sports, being left out of the college football playoffs. The full interview will be out Dec. 15. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more.
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| 0:49.3 | You know. Welcome to the sports media podcast. |
| 1:00.4 | I'm your host Richard Dyke. |
| 1:01.2 | My producer is Patrick Antonetti. |
| 1:02.5 | This is a first look where we give you a preview of an upcoming full conversation. |
| 1:08.5 | Our guest here is Rick Cordella. |
| 1:10.6 | He's the president of NBC Sports, and we had a |
| 1:12.9 | great conversation on a number of topics, including their remarkable set of events in February, |
| 1:20.2 | Milan, Cortina, Olympic Games, the Super Bowl, and the NBA All-Star game, all within like a 10 or 15-day |
| 1:26.2 | stretch, pretty remarkable stretch, historic stretch like a 10 or 15-day stretch. Pretty remarkable stretch. |
| 1:28.5 | Historic stretch, in fact, for any legacy media company. |
| 1:33.1 | For this first clip, though, Rick talks about Michael Jordan's involvement with NBC Sports |
| 1:39.8 | as a special contributor, as well as I asked him about Notre Dame missing out on the college football |
| 1:46.0 | playoffs. Of course, Notre Dame is a partner of NBC. So NBC certainly has some opinions on that. |
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